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So this is assuming China managed to modernise to a much more satisfactory degree during the later half of the 19th century where it can at least fight off the foreign powers and preserve both Korea and Vietnam as tributaries.The question is what would have happened to Korea and Vietnam eventually.Would they eventually be turned into another Tibet,as in a tributary/vassal state eventually annexed?What would have happened?Suzerainty's getting increasingly outdated as a legal concept,so what would have happened to both states?
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